The European Fisheries Control Agency organises a seminar on the monitoring of the landing obligation on 4 March with representatives of Member States and the European Commission. The purpose of the meeting is to examine the state of play of the implementation of the landing obligation in the different regions and exchange views on its monitoring, to reflect on the added value of the concept of the joint deployment plan to the implementation of the landing obligation at a JDP and regional level and to discuss possible future actions of EFCA to assist the Member States and the European Commission in the implementation of the landing obligation, considering that 2016 is the year when demersal fisheries are also covered in most of EU waters.
The seminar will revolve around the most effective approach for the common monitoring of the landing obligation, taking stock of what has been done so far in the regional groups of Member States (BALTFISH, Scheveningen group, etc.) and adapting the model to address the phasing in of the additional species falling under the landing obligation until 2019 following the CFP regulation.